Rebels Rebelling in Rebellion

"Falluja clearly will require a lot of effort even after the final pocket of insurgents is eliminated in the city," one senior American general in Iraq said in an e-mail message on Sunday. "Lots of challenges - infrastructure, basic needs for returnees, security forces, and governance, not to mention elections. Assume the insurgents will continue to try to make life tough there as well."
Apparently after the pocket of ‘insurgents’ is wiped out they will still be around to cause problems at the elections so they haven’t been wiped out.
In any case are the men and women fighting American and British occupation forces in Iraq insurgents or are they something else?
They all seem to want to live in peace and freedom from oppression.
They seem to want religious and political freedom.
Some parts of the country even want the right to secede – so apparently they want a Confederation.
That would make them Iraqi Confederates.
The Americans, British and the Iraqi Federal Government want total control and the oil.
An insurgent is someone who rises in revolt against established authority. But there hasn’t been an election and when there is one it won’t be held by an established authority.
Insurgent marks an early, and rebel a more advanced, stage of opposition to government. The former rises up against his rulers, the latter makes war upon them.
Those men and women are making war on the occupation forces and the puppet Iraqi government.
They are rebels rebelling in rebellion.
It seems to me that they should have some say in their government rather than being shut out by the likes of Allawi and his carpetbaggers.